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I have no clue about Rural King but I will admit that I usually just buy the only one available at my local auto supply. Likely been sitting on the shelf since who knows when before I buy it. And I generally get at least 3 years but usually much longer. My current battery is at least 6 years old. Or rather, I purchased it at least 6 years ago and who knows how many years it was sitting on the shelf before that.

 

Given the gentle use many of our older cars get even a low end battery can last a long time.

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Just purchased my 2nd Optima for the woodie. The first one lasted 7 years, and still has enough cranking power to start the wagon, but you can tell that it's tired. I chose the AGM type since the battery sits under the seat for the P10s. I used some wood blocks to wedge it in there, since it doesn't fill the whole space. 

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Been getting 5 to 7 years from standard lead acid group 1 6 volts.  Gotten some from exide, some from interstate. They are both in the 725 to 750 Cold cranking range.  Most of the black case ones are made by either Exide or deka  or something like that regardless of the brand stickers, don't know who makes interstates. 50 bucks is a pretty good price these days.  Last one I got last fall from Battery Warehouse 79.00 1 year free replacement, plus 2 additional prorated replacement cost. The one it replaced was purchased in 2015.

 

The exide place was a distributer warehouse.  Usually the have seconds or out of date new ones.  These are units that get pulled from retail stores after 6 months.  They brought those back and sold them with a 1 year prorated warranty.   They sold for 40% off full warehouse pricing.  I grabbed those when available usually got 5 years ago before they needed replacement. Guess we are lucky to have these two facilities in the area. 

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I think you will do ok with this battery. Canyou also have them check the amount of electrolite reading for each cell?  Also the manufacturer date should be stamped on the battery.  If the build date is real old ask them to get you a newer battery and also verify the amount of volts in the unit.

 

After hooking up the battery teh suggest that you also put a small trickle charge on it. This will also extend the life of the battery.

 

Also only used distrilled water in the ells if you need to added fluid and get from NAPA the  water bulb to add fluid.  This bulb should have a small hole about 1/8 inch up from the end of the filler tube. This prevent you from over filling the battery. So that when you are squezzing in more water and then  left off on the bulb it will pull out the excess water via the smallhole in the end of the nozzel so that the baterry fluid level is set at the poper amount adn jus above the top of the cells.

 

Als get a hydrometer to measure the battery fluid.  After adding water do not take the reading at the point yu will need to run the car and also drive it to get the new fluid mixed with the older fluid. Then test it to see what reading you have.

 

Rich HArtung

Desoto1939@aol.com

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I am currently in my 5th year with a 6V flooded wet cell battery. Its just a run of the mill general battery. It sits every winter from about Nov 1 to Mar 15. I do top it up with a .75A 6V charger about every 3-4 weeks while in hibernation.  No complaints. It fired up my 265 ci engine no problem. Still unknown how long it’ll last as I still use it. 

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Here's a question that will seem obvious to most guys but since I'm stupid as a stick electrically, when I trickle charge my 6 volt positive ground car, obviously I hook red to positive, black to negative, but since positive goes to ground, would I need to disconnect my battery leads from the battery whenever I charge it? Or are all my electrical components save and really don't care what the charger is doing.

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Ignore the polarity of the car’s electrical system. Just look at the battery. The  Positive post on the battery gets the red clamp from the battery charger. Negative battery post gets the black clamp.  Just make sure it’s 6V charger! 

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